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5J4 • FULMAR PETREL. 



LV. PETREL. Gen. Birds, LXXXIX. 



461. Fulmar. Br. ZooL ii. N" 257. — Procellatia glacialis, Faun. Suec. N" 144. — Petrel de I'lflc 



de St. Kilda, fl. Enl. ^g.'~Latham, iii. —Lev. Mt7S. 



PWith a ftrong yellow bill : head, neck, tail, and under fide of 

 • the body, white : back and coverts of wings cinereous : pri- 

 maries dufky : legs of a pale yellov/. Rather larger than the Com- 

 mon Gull. 



Abound in the feas of Spitzhergen and Greenland, and common in 

 thofe between Kamtfchaika z.ni^ America : the latter are darker colored 

 than the former. They are equally abundant in the fouthern hemi- 

 fphere. Captain Cook found them among the ice, in his voyage to- 

 wards the fouth pole, in lat. 64. 55 *; in lat. 59, to the fouth of the ifle 

 of New Georgia f ; and even in the moderate climate of lat. 34. 45, 

 not remote from the Cape of Good Hope %. They keep chiefly in the 

 high feas, and feed on dead whales, or any thing that offers on the 

 furface ; but will, with their ftrong bills, pick the fat out of the backs 

 of living whales, efpecially of the wounded ; whofe bloody track they 

 will follow by hundreds, to watch its rifing. Their flight refembles 

 'running on the top of the water; for which reafon the Norwegians 

 call it Hav-heji, or Sea-horfe ; and Storm-fugl, or Storm-fowl, as be- 

 ing fuppofed to be a prefage of tempefts. The Dutch call it Mall- 

 mucke, or the Foolifli Fly, from their multitudes, and their ftupidity. 

 They very feldom come to land, unlefs they chance to lofe their way 

 in the mifts, ^vhich are fo frequent on the coaft of Greenland during 

 the month q^ Auguft. They breed on the broken rocks about DiJcOi 

 .and remote from the main land. 



They are, by reafon of their food, exceffively fetid ; yet the flefli 

 ■isiufed as a food by t\it Greenlanders, both raw and drefled. The fat 



* Cook's Fey. S. Pole, i. 352. f ForJItr's Foj, ii, 534. % Forfier, 1.52. 



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